[xmonad] xmonad on solaris, input issue

[Stephan Schulz]

Hi!

On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Christian Walther wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 23 January 2010 19:47, Stephan Schulz <ss.c at gmx.net> wrote:
> [...]
>> xmonad --recompile yielded no errors or warnings, but it didn't help either.
>
> This is odd.
> Maybe there's something broken with the keyboard definition? You could
> run xev from inside a terminal to see what happens when you press any
> of the modifier keys.
> If you move the focus to the xev window you'll be able to monitor
> what's happening in the terminal. The output should look like:
>
> KeyPress event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0x1a00001,
>    root 0x6e, subw 0x0, time 48918465, (342,370), root:(343,385),
>    state 0x0, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES,
>    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
>    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
>    XFilterEvent returns: False
>
> KeyRelease event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x1a00001,
>    root 0x6e, subw 0x0, time 48918584, (342,370), root:(343,385),
>    state 0x8, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES,
>    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
>    XFilterEvent returns: False
>

This is my output of xev:
KeyPress event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0x1e00001,
     root 0x3f, subw 0x1e00002, time 1699071935, (42,49), root:(44,51),
     state 0x0, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES,
     XLookupString gives 0 characters:  ""

KeyRelease event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0x1e00001,
     root 0x3f, subw 0x1e00002, time 1699072015, (42,49), root:(44,51),
     state 0x8, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES,
     XLookupString gives 0 characters:  ""

Looks okay to me..

> Btw: What's your hardware configuration? Are you running on some old
> sparc box, or is it a USB keyboard? And what about the software, is it
> a stock Solaris 10 (including Xsun), or do you use any additional
> packages? OpenCSW for example comes with it's own Xorg server, which
> might lead to some configuration trouble (this is just a guess,
> though).
> Did you modify the xorg.conf of your X server?

First, it's not my dedicated sparc box but my companies. Its a SPARC 
Enterprise M3000 Server and I'm connected to it through a SunRay with an 
USB keyboard. The Xserver is Xnewt. This means I cannot change any 
X-related configurations but I also think is isn't necessary as other 
windowmanagers work flawless. (I'm currently using a self-compiled fluxbox 
on it).

Any other tips?

kind regards,
Stephan